Essays in Idleness

Democracy is a sick joke, as the prosecution of Trump in America, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Imran Khan in Pakistan, Salvini in Italy, Georgescu in Romania, and now Le Pen in France, has displayed, unambiguously, to the whole world, if the world were capable of noticing, or thought. Each of these candidates stands accused of being a “populist” — i.e. likely to win an election, unless they had already won. Marine Le Pen is being put in prison, where the Democrats tried to put Trump (for up to 300 years on twisted and absurd charges), using the United States’ corrupt progressive judicial system. The specific charge brought against Le Pen was that she embezzled from the European bureaucracy. As all mainstream European politicians are constantly and obviously guilty of this, it was a convenient charge.

The parrot gallery is all singing that she is “far right,” this morning.

I am not your political reporter, and will not take the extravagant amount of space required to explain the detailed particulars of each case, when all are essentially simple. Democracy is a viciously corrupt system, in which the powers-that-be in each electoral district do what they think is necessary to maintain their dictatorship. Power is the only thing they care about, because with power, money can be appropriated. Truth is something they all despise. This has been my own experience, both here and abroad; and one must be a fool (though with some practise, a “holy fool” perhaps) to stand up to a political establishment, for it will own even the opposition parties. (Your homework assignment: Find out what commands all-party agreement.)

To know what is afoot in each place, you need only to read the news media, but with the sort of background that requires genuine experience. Journalists are dead easy to buy off, as Canada’s fully bought media notoriously shows. If you aren’t a tame, obedient, “progressive” journalist here, you aren’t being paid. And if you aren’t being paid, you are not employed. Though literally, the NDP-Liberals buy off the journalists, with tax money, individually and collectively.

Rarely is it a formal political party that calls the signals. The Devil can happily work through those, but feels more comfortable in the darker backrooms. But when democracy seems to work towards some just and happy result, the Devil is enraged. He must organize violent and destructive demonstrations.